Understanding the Future of the Green Economy in Brazil
Driven by its biodiversity and growing demand for sustainable solutions, Brazil has immense potential to lead the global transition to a green economy. Explore the main opportunities and challenges for its development.
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Green Wave Insights
The OV Insights 2024-2025 collection will feature publications that explore the current state of the green economy in Brazil, highlighting its opportunities and pillars for sustainable development. The following studies will be released by COP30:
Onda Verde Insights is an initiative of Climate Ventures, launched to foster structured knowledge about the green economy in Brazil.
With the support of strategic partners such as the Climate and Society Institute (iCS), Fundo Vale and Instituto Itaúsa, the project aims to bring quantitative and qualitative analyses that support market decision-making and the formulation of public policies in the Brazilian sustainability agenda.
Estruturação do mercado de Soluções Baseadas na Natureza (SbN) no Brasil
O Brasil detém uma rara combinação de ativos e vive um momento decisivo para as Soluções Baseadas na Natureza (SbN). Com capital já mobilizado, o desafio mudou: além de atrair recursos, o foco passa a ser garantir a prontidão do pipeline, a capacidade de execução e a infraestrutura de mercado.
Structuring the Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) market in Brazil
Brazil holds a rare combination of assets and faces a decisive moment for Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). With capital already mobilized, the challenge has shifted: beyond attracting resources, the focus is now on ensuring pipeline readiness, execution capacity, and market infrastructure.
Technology and Trust in the Amazon (English Version)
Strengthening Integrity in Environmental Services Markets through Innovation: Lessons from Carbon Markets.
UNLOCKING POTENTIAL OF CLIMATE INNOVATION THROUGH GLOBAL SOUTH COLLABORATION (English Version)
This exclusive report, based on mapping 4,500+ climate solutions, reveals where the capital, innovation, and impact are converging in the Global South. Download it to unlock the data-driven strategies for a resilient future.
Map of the Ecosystem of Nature-Based Solutions in Brazil 2025: A first visualization.
A zoom in on the Brazilian SbN market, focusing on recommendations for unlocking your financing.
Recommendations to boost the green economy in Brazil 2025
Macro and micro recommendations to accelerate climate innovation and redirect the engines of sustainable financing in Brazil.
Unlocking the Potential of Climate Tech in Brazil 2025 (Portuguese Version)
A strategic guide for investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to accelerate the green economy in Brazil.
The Green Wave in 2021
Onda Verde Insights is an offshoot of the inaugural study A Onda Verde, launched in 2021, which resulted in the first qualified framework containing key sectors, impact factors and opportunities for the low-carbon ecosystem in the country.
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“We are facing a unique opportunity to boost the green economy in Brazil. With a government committed to a just transition to a low-carbon economy, a regulatory ‘green wave’ is approaching, bringing new regulations that will shape this transformation. This scenario will redirect capital to emerging markets and strengthen our relationship with the external market, attracting investments and multilateral support. Onda Verde Insights will be essential to guide the development of this new economy, maximizing climate and socio-environmental impacts. Aligned with the Climate Plan, the new Brazilian NDC and the Ecological Transformation Plan, Onda Verde Insights will highlight trends and strategic opportunities for the growth of the green economy.”
Daniel Contrucci Co-founder and CEO of Climate Ventures.